Turfway Park, as part of its first Saturday night program in decades, will feature a deep, full field of 3-year-olds in the $50,000 WEBN Stakes Feb. 5, one of the local preps for the $500,000 Vinery Racing Spiral Stakes (gr. III) in late March.

First post time moves to 5:30 p.m. EST for all Saturday programs except the March 26 Vinery Racing Spiral card, which will be held in the afternoon as usual. The Kentucky track is offering various food and beverage specials and entertainment as it has for years on Friday nights.

Despite static purses the local 3-year-old contingent appears somewhat stronger than in recent years. The WEBN, at one mile on Polytrack, will mark the first start around two turns for many of the entrants. A field of 12 was entered, with two on the also-eligible list.

Favoritism could fall to several horses, including Kenneth Ayres’ Banjammer (by Candy Ride), who flew home in the Jan. 8 Turfway Prevue at 6 1/2 furlongs and lost a head bob to Inhisglory, who was sold after the race and is entered Feb. 5 in the Black Gold Stakes on dirt at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots. Banjammer is 4-1 on the morning line.

Four horses exit a Jan. 23 entry-level allowance test at 6 1/2 furlongs at Turfway: L.A. Racing Inc.’s Paige Me (by Shaniko), who won the event, and Krazy VIII Racing’s Cuvee's Image (by Cuvee), Faisal Seddiq Al Mutawa’s Faisal Prince (by Officer), and Elias Lubbat’s Champion Kid (by Aragorn), who finished second, third, and fourth respectively. All four will try two turns for the first time in the WEBN.

An unusual and definitive inside speed bias Jan. 23 appeared to aid Paige Me, who won by a length in wire-to-wire fashion in solid time at 39-1. Of the others, favored Faisal Prince may have gotten the worst of it, racing wide throughout before accelerating late to make up almost five lengths on the leader.